31. Israel and its three Arab peace partners end an unprecedented summit by agreeing to resume Israeli-PLO talks next week and push ahead the faltering peace process. 32. Israel and its three Arab peace partners met Thursday in Cairo. 33. Israel has repeatedly rejected the idea of more peace partners. 34. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Yasser Arafat on Wednesday, formally accepting as a peace partner the Palestinian leader he had reviled as a terrorist. 35. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has told Arafat he must disarm the group and arrest its leaders if he wants to remain a credible peace partner. 36. It will be the first meeting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has held with his main Arab peace partners as a group. 37. Jordan and Israel, the newest Middle East peace partners, last week sent two planeloads of humanitarian supplies in a joint relief operation. 38. Netanyahu capitalized on the bombings in his campaign, insisting that the Arabs make unreliable peace partners and promising to be tougher on terrorism. 39. Netanyahu has branded Arafat as an unreliable peace partner who has repeatedly violated the agreements with Israel. 40. President George W. Bush has said that Arafat was an unreliable peace partner. |